This money laundering crap is a pain in the arse.
My wife is waiting for her share of her parents assets, and my son (an accountant) has been helpibgbjer set up various investments and accounts.
The money will come from a traceable UK bank account, with the solicitor into a joint account, where I am tasked with distributing it to her new accounts. On attempting to open a "Marcus" account, there is a question about where the money comes from.
They ticked inheritance.
It now requires death certificate, copy of will, and a letter from.the solicitor.
We don't have these and asking the Executor to obtain them is apparently too much stress for him. The solicitor is an arse anyway. I told him, not to deal with the firm he used, because I've had dealings with them and they were uselessly ineffective.
Going back and attempting to tick a different box is apparently not possible.
My Mum's little bungalow was only part owned be her, the rest is owned by the estate of my late cousin. It's administered by two trustees, one of which is a solicitor, a partner in the firm who look after the whole of cousins estate. To say that they are useless would be a total understatement. Mum was buried mid January and the bungalow is still not on the market. The buggers are stalling on all fronts using a slight subsidence issue as a reason. All the beneficiaries just want it sold but just getting a face to face meeting with them is proving to be a difficult thing. Using Covid as a excuse not to meet to discuss the issues. Frustrating for my brother and myself, especially him as he is mid eighties.